We benefit from the experience of former RAF personnel but it is a huge asset to have many who can bring industry and life skills to the museum. 

We'd like to thanks all of our nominators and our most excellent volunteers for their service.

It is no surprise that of the excellent reviews the museum receives, it is the volunteers who are mentioned the most - from the care of the grounds to the warm welcome, through the service in the cafe to the archives, presenters and maintenance.

It is always hard to pick out individuals for special recognition when working with so many wonderful people, which is why this award is brilliant for recognising the whole contingent. It is the equivalent to an MBE - a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

The Master Control Centre was briefly at Bawburgh for PLAN AHEAD, before moving to West Drayton for LINESMAN

Hello David, we don't think so. In 1953 GCI operations moved into the R3 bunker, until the fire in there in 1966. Neatishead was one of the last to join the ROTOR package of Type 80 radars in 1959, but one of the first to join LINESMAN with the Type 84 in 1963.

At the back of the site stands the Type 84 radar aerial, now in private ownership and a scheduled national monument, which was built in the 1960s, whilst in the centre of the site we have the new generation of RAF air defence with the active TPS77 radar.

In the late 1940s the building was extended as part of the ROTOR scheme, with the R3 underground bunker (now grade 2 listed) being built in the 1950s in response to the test-fire of the first Soviet nuclear weapon.

The R30 was completed at RAF Neatishead on 15th July 1942 as a concrete reinforced main operations room for the fighter controllers guiding night fighters from RAF Coltishall. Before this the RAF had used tent and lorry-mounted ground control intercept radar equipment on the site.

The mystery object is... a wobbulator attached to the AMES type 11. A wobbulator or 'wobbling oscillator' was used to test the response of a receiver across different frequencies. A similar device was used by Delia Derbyshire to create audio tones, which became the distinctive Dr Who theme tune.

"It may have been a throwback to the Enhanced Recognised Air Picture Dissemination System (ERAPDS) we had in the R30 SLEWCS Ops room and we didn't use this much as it was unreliable."

"I can't remember if this screen was also used to project the ICCS Recognised Air/Sea Picture, but I have a feeling it could.
In the photo the Screen is behind the black curtain at the front of the Ops room with the projector in a room behind the screen."

From one of our volunteers: "If they are referring to the big screen at the front of Upper Ops (Weapons), the only time I saw this in use was at the morning briefings & Exercise briefings.

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